Into the wild. Striving for high ecological validity in experimental social media studies – Is it worth it?
During the Covid-19 outbreak, the spread of false information on social media has often been linked to citizens’ motivation to participate in protests against lock-down measures of governments or to attend ‘corona parties’. Although such relationships may exist, we should be aware that spread of (dis-)information does…
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big data
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democracy
digital campaigning
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interdisciplinarity
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Political Communication
Politics on Social Media
Populist Communication
post-truth
representativeness
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social media data
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